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2013 Event - The recent meat adulteration scandal prompts Swedish furniture megastore IKEA to stop sales of its moose meat lasagna in its worldwide stores

2012 Event - Swedish doctors perform the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant on a 10-year old girl

2011 Event - The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer

2011 Event - A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564

2003 Death - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping

1994 Event - Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government

1994 Event - Swedish government of Bildt resigns

1994 Event - 29.0 degrees C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)

1994 Death - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68

1992 Death - Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies

1991 Death - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer and Professor (Swedish Academy), dies

1988 Death - Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies

1986 Event - Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme

1986 Death - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59

1986 Death - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84

1983 Death - Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78

1982 Event - Olof Palme forms Swedish government

1982 Death - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53

1981 Event - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American

1981 Death - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer and actress (Gabriela), dies at 79

1976 Death - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76

1974 Death - Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83

1968 Birthday - Anders Holmertz, Swedish free style swimmer, world record 400m

1968 Death - Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89

1968 Death - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51

1968 Death - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57

1967 Birthday - Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish Model

1965 Death - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70

1965 Death - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh and Devil), dies after illness at 78

1964 Birthday - Neneh Cherry, born in Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer, Money Love

1964 Birthday - John Norum, born in Vardo, Norway, musician, hard rock guitarist, co-founder of Swedish band Europe

1963 Birthday - Catarina Lindqvist, born in Sweden, tennis player, Swedish Open 1986

1962 Death - Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90

1962 Birthday - Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper 1984,1988 Olympics gold

1961 Death - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies

1960 Event - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt

1960 Death - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49

1960 Death - Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88

1960 Death - Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83

1960 Death - Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedraktens Barn), dies at 77

1960 Death - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope and Means), dies at 68

1957 Birthday - Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs

1954 Death - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31

1954 Death - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78

1954 Death - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80

1953 Death - Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79

1952 Event - Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down

1952 Event - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8

1951 Birthday - Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish actor, Breaking the Waves

1950 Death - Gosta Forsell, Swedish radiologist, dies at 74

1950 Death - Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Drom), dies at 56

1950 Event - Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die

1949 Birthday - Goran Persson, Swedish Politician

1948 Death - Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40

1947 Death - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies

1947 Death - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34

1947 Death - Else JT Rangstrom, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies

1945 Death - Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45

1945 Event - Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands

1945 Event - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

1944 Event - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann

1941 Death - Karin Boye, Swedish Poet

1940 Death - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjarna), dies at 59

1937 Birthday - Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer, Doppelspiel

1935 Event - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia

1935 Event - Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)

1934 Birthday - Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer, Hour of the Lynx

1932 Birthday - Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer, Myten om Wu Tao-tzu

1932 Death - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide

1931 Birthday - Tomas G. Transtromer, Swedish psychologist/poet, Morkerseende

1931 Birthday - Goran J S Palm, Swedish poet and writer, Hudens Besok

1930 Death - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies

1929 Birthday - Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress, One Summer of Happiness

1928 Death - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director (Streets of sin), dies at 45

1928 Birthday - Hans Blix, Swedish Diplomat

1927 Birthday - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist, Albania Defiant

1926 Event - Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish princess Astrid get engaged

1926 Event - Swedish government of Ekman forms

1926 Birthday - Anton PO Ekstrom, Swedish writer, Summer Dances

1926 Birthday - Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire, Tetra Pak

1925 Death - Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71

1925 Death - Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

1923 Birthday - Sara A. Lidman, Swedish author, Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi

1923 Birthday - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child

1923 Death - Gustav Enestrom, Swedish historian, dies at 70

1923 Event - Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands

1922 Birthday - Johan R Kjellen, Swedish sociologist

1920 Death - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32

1920 Death - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60

1920 Birthday - Bengt N. Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer, Kain

1919 Birthday - Sven-Erik Beck, Swedish violinist, composer and conductor

1916 Birthday - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1916 Death - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71

1915 Birthday - Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer, Death of Me

1914 Event - Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary

1913 Event - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

1912 Birthday - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II, saved 10,000s of Jews

1912 Death - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63

1911 Death - Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet (Grabstank), dies at 50

1911 Birthday - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor

1910 Death - Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer, dies at 64

1910 Birthday - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist, Aniara

1909 Birthday - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish Businessman

1908 Birthday - Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970

1908 Birthday - Hannes Alfven, Swedish Scientist

1907 Birthday - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author, Pipi Longstocking

1907 Birthday - Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer, Guldkedjan

1907 Birthday - Bjorn-Erik Hoijer, Swedish writer, Nu dansar Sara

1906 Death - Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies

1906 Birthday - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy, Agadir

1905 Event - Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages

1905 Birthday - Sven Johan Stolpe, Swedish author, Latt, snabb och om

1905 Birthday - Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer, Acrobat

1905 Birthday - Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist

1903 Birthday - Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author, Kamrathustru-Wife and Comrade

1902 Birthday - Zarah Leander, Swedish and German singer and actress, Gabriela

1901 Birthday - Irja A Browallius, Swedish author, Syndon pa Skruke

1901 Birthday - Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier, 1946-69

1901 Death - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87

1901 Birthday - Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor, Daphne

1900 Birthday - Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1900 Birthday - Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright, Heliga Familjen

1898 Birthday - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet, Barfotabarn

1896 Death - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63

1895 Birthday - Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer, Bombi Bitt Och Jag

1895 Birthday - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer, Milky Way system

1895 Birthday - Olof R Jandel, Swedish poet

1894 Birthday - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden

1893 Birthday - Harry Blomberg, Swedish author, Master Jacob

1891 Birthday - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist, Theory of Money and Capital

1890 Birthday - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer and troubadour

1888 Birthday - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer, Svarta Ballader

1888 Birthday - Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist, Atlas over Svensk Folk culture

1887 Death - Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale, soprano, dies at 67

1887 Birthday - Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Vilande Dag

1886 Birthday - Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924

1886 Death - P J Edvard Backstrom, Swedish writer, dies at 44

1883 Birthday - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director, Erotikon

1882 Birthday - Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer

1882 Birthday - Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer, Tvedraktens Barn

1880 Birthday - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer, Sak och sken

1879 Birthday - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist

1878 Birthday - Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist, Protactinium

1878 Death - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83

1876 Birthday - Gosta Forsell, Swedish radiologist

1875 Birthday - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author, Ulla Bella

1874 Death - Anders J engstrom, Swedish astronomer/physicist (e-unit), dies at 59

1874 Birthday - Elsa Beskow, Maartman, Swedish children's book/fairy tales author

1873 Birthday - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor

1871 Death - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies

1868 Death - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71

1866 Death - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72

1864 Birthday - Johan R. Kjellen, Swedish sociologist

1864 Birthday - Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Samlade Arbeten

1862 Birthday - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911

1860 Birthday - Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

1860 Birthday - Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet, Stank och flikar

1860 Birthday - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor, Gustavus Vasa

1859 Birthday - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903

1859 Death - Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74

1858 Birthday - Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author, Boken om Lillebror

1854 Birthday - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer

1852 Birthday - Gustav Enestrom, Swedish mathematician

1850 Event - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert

1850 Event - Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina

1849 Birthday - Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman

1848 Death - Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68

1847 Event - 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City

1846 Birthday - Johann E. Backlund, Swedish astronomer, planets/asteroids

1841 Birthday - P J Edvard Backstrom, Swedish writer

1839 Death - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies

1833 Birthday - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist

1819 Death - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies

1813 Birthday - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist

1812 Event - Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

1794 Birthday - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist, System mycologicum

1793 Birthday - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer, Tornrosens Buck

1793 Death - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35

1790 Birthday - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet, Blommorna

1790 Birthday - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet, Lycksalighetens

1788 Event - Russian fleet destroys Swedish

1786 Death - Carl W.Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43

1785 Death - Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54

1785 Birthday - Arvir A. Afzelius, Swedish story teller

1783 Birthday - Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet, Natthimmelen

1779 Birthday - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/songwriter/archbishop, Dodens Engel

1779 Birthday - Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight

1778 Death - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies

1778 Birthday - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, naming plants and animals

1778 Death - Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70

1772 Event - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720

1772 Death - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Environmentalist

1758 Death - Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer and conductor /violinist, dies

1757 Birthday - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, lichens

1757 Birthday - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet, Medea, Yttersa Domen

1746 Birthday - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer and naval chaplain

1746 Birthday - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment, 1771-92

1742 Birthday - Carl W. Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, lemon acid

1721 Event - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War

1715 Event - Swedish troops occupy Norway

1714 Event - Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet

1714 Event - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet

1713 Death - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34

1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1708 Event - Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians

1706 Event - Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen

1705 Birthday - Peter Arctedius, Swedish biologist

1703 Event - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians

1702 Event - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow

1702 Event - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw

1700 Event - Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians

1700 Event - Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark

1694 Birthday - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer and conductor /violinist

1688 Birthday - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Environmentalist

1682 Event - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy

1679 Death - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies

1679 Birthday - Johan Runius, Swedish poet, Dudaim

1676 Death - Creutz, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle

1676 Death - Uggla, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle

1675 Event - Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships

1674 Death - Lars Johnstown, Lasse Lucidor, Swedish poet, dies at 35

1658 Event - Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch

1656 Event - Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw

1655 Event - Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1655 Event - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1655 Event - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware

1655 Event - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw

1655 Event - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw

1654 Death - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71

1652 Death - Louis de Geer, Netherlands/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64

1649 Event - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague

1638 Event - French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine

1638 Birthday - Lars Johnstown, Swedish poet

1638 Event - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)

1637 Event - Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden

1634 Event - Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat

1632 Event - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies

1632 Event - Swedish and Saxon army beat Earl Tilly

1630 Event - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde

1630 Event - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde

1628 Death - Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned

1621 Event - Swedish troops occupy Riga

1598 Birthday - Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry", Hercules

1598 Death - Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies

1583 Birthday - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent

1552 Death - Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies

1523 Event - Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)

1520 Event - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles

1373 Death - Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies

1341 Death - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies

860 Event - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople

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